Texas IVF law: Gov. Abbott says he supports IVF in aftermath of Alabama Supreme Court ruling
10 months ago

Texas IVF law: Gov. Abbott says he supports IVF in aftermath of Alabama Supreme Court ruling

CNN  

CNN — As Alabama grapples with the fallout of a state Supreme Court decision that has widely halted access to in vitro fertilization, Texas Gov. The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that frozen embryos are considered human beings and people who discard of embryos can be held liable for wrongful death, prompting fertility clinics throughout the state to begin halting IVF services and forcing families to make difficult decisions about their fertility care. The turmoil caused by the Alabama Supreme Court decision has extended beyond the state’s borders, with some families fleeing to other states, including Texas, where access to IVF services remains in place. Democratic Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels introduced a bill this week that would establish that fertilized human eggs stored outside a uterus are not considered human beings under state law.

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Couples ask judge to find Alabama law that provides legal immunity to IVF providers unconstitutional
6 months, 1 week ago

Couples ask judge to find Alabama law that provides legal immunity to IVF providers unconstitutional

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Couples whose lawsuits against fertility providers led an Alabama court to rule that frozen embryos could be considered children have asked a judge to toss out a new state law that provides legal immunity to in vitro fertilization providers. The Alabama Supreme Court in February ruled the the couples could pursue lawsuits for the death of their …

Column: Ted Cruz and Katie Britt claim to be protecting IVF with a new bill. Don’t believe them
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: Ted Cruz and Katie Britt claim to be protecting IVF with a new bill. Don’t believe them

LA Times  

Ever since the Supreme Court upended reproductive health rights in its 2022 Dobbs decision, antiabortion activists have been trying to make the case that the decision won’t have the dire effect on women and their families that its critics foresaw. She asks whether the Alabama ruling means that “genetic testing should no longer take place because you can’t discard the …

Ted Cruz files bill to protect IVF
7 months ago

Ted Cruz files bill to protect IVF

Raw Story  

"Ted Cruz files bill to protect IVF" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is leading a charge to protect access to in vitro fertilization as conservative states scramble to figure out …

How a Denton divorce could imperil IVF access in Texas
7 months, 1 week ago

How a Denton divorce could imperil IVF access in Texas

Raw Story  

"How a Denton divorce could imperil IVF access in Texas" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. “This is a family issue and if — and it's a big if — the courts are getting involved, they’d be …

How a Texas man is testing out-of-state abortions by asking a court to subpoena his ex-partner
7 months, 2 weeks ago

How a Texas man is testing out-of-state abortions by asking a court to subpoena his ex-partner

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas man is petitioning a court to authorize an obscure legal action to find out who allegedly helped his former partner obtain an out-of-state abortion, setting up the latest test of the reach of statewide abortion bans. As some states work to expand abortion access and others impose more limits following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning …

How IVF is complicating Republicans' abortion messaging
9 months, 1 week ago

How IVF is complicating Republicans' abortion messaging

NPR  

How IVF is complicating Republicans' abortion messaging Enlarge this image toggle caption Catie Dull/NPR Catie Dull/NPR In-vitro fertilization has become the latest front in the political battle over reproductive rights, and it's left some Republicans grappling with how to square their support for IVF with their past stances on reproductive rights. In her Republican response to President Biden's State of …

Alabama court ruling upends IVF patients' lives
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Alabama court ruling upends IVF patients' lives

Raw Story  

After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, women who were undergoing fertility treatments in the southern US state had their lives thrown into shock and uncertainty. - Families 'stuck' in legal limbo - Meghan Cole, an Alabama attorney, has a blood disorder that causes her "not to be able to carry children," she told NBC's Today …

Following Alabama, embryo personhood bill in Iowa could put IVF at risk, too
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Following Alabama, embryo personhood bill in Iowa could put IVF at risk, too

Salon  

Following the chaos that unfolded when Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are legally children, many are watching a bill in Iowa closely as its passage could impact in vitro fertilization clinics in the state, too. On Thursday, Iowa House Republicans approved a bill that would criminalize the death of an “unborn person.” Currently the state Iaw has penalties for …

Iowa House OKs bill to criminalize death of an “unborn person” despite IVF concerns
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Iowa House OKs bill to criminalize death of an “unborn person” despite IVF concerns

Associated Press  

DES MOINES, Iowa — Republicans in Iowa’s House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that would criminalize the death of an “unborn person” — over Democrats’ concerns about how it might apply to in vitro fertilization, after an Alabama court found frozen embryos can be considered children. Iowa’s law currently outlines penalties for termination or serious injury to a “human …

Alabama governor comes out to ‘protect’ IVF treatments and providers
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Alabama governor comes out to ‘protect’ IVF treatments and providers

Hindustan Times  

A month after Alabama Supreme Court's ruling raised concerns over future of vitro fertilization providers the Gov. Earlier the Alabama Supreme Court had ruled that embryos are children, leading to concerns about civil liabilities for clinics and prompted an outcry from patients and other groups. Cheering the decision Republican Sen. Tim Melson, who Doctors from Alabama Fertility, one of the …

Alabama governor signs legislation protecting IVF clinics from legal liability into law
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Alabama governor signs legislation protecting IVF clinics from legal liability into law

ABC  

In short: The US state of Alabama has legislated protections for IVF providers. The governor of Alabama has signed legislation into law shielding in-vitro fertilisation providers from potential legal liability raised by a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. Last month a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court left unclear how to legally store, transport and use embryos, …

Alabama governor signs legislation protecting IVF providers from legal liability into law
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Alabama governor signs legislation protecting IVF providers from legal liability into law

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Facing pressure to get in vitro fertilization services restarted in the state, Alabama’s governor swiftly signed legislation into law Wednesday shielding doctors from potential legal liability raised by a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. The Alabama Supreme Court last month ruled that three couples whose frozen embryos were destroyed in an accident at a …

Alabama lawmakers advance legislation to protect IVF providers after frozen embryo ruling
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Alabama lawmakers advance legislation to protect IVF providers after frozen embryo ruling

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Committees in the state Senate …

Alabama lawmakers advance legislation to protect IVF providers, with final approval still ahead
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Alabama lawmakers advance legislation to protect IVF providers, with final approval still ahead

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers facing public pressure to restart in vitro fertilization services in the state advanced legislation Tuesday to shield providers from the fallout of a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. Committees in the state Senate and House approved identical bills that would protect providers from lawsuits and criminal prosecution for the “damage or death …

"It does not protect parents": Experts say bills to protect IVF in Alabama isn’t enough
9 months, 2 weeks ago

"It does not protect parents": Experts say bills to protect IVF in Alabama isn’t enough

Salon  

Two weeks after facing a backlash when Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos are legally children, Alabama lawmakers scrambled to put together a new legislation to help protect in vitro fertilization clinics from civil lawsuits and criminal prosecution. But last week, Alabama legislators in both chambers passed bills that would give civil and criminal immunity related to IVF providers or …

Opinion: How Alabama's IVF ruling unmasks the hypocrisy of antiabortion zealots
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: How Alabama's IVF ruling unmasks the hypocrisy of antiabortion zealots

LA Times  

We don’t know whether former Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, had any leftover embryos after they availed themselves of the advanced reproductive technology known as in vitro fertilization to become the parents of their three children, who are now adults. “It’s been incredible to watch Republicans now scramble to suddenly support IVF while many of these same …

Commentary: My wife and I navigated IVF just fine without the Alabama Supreme Court
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Commentary: My wife and I navigated IVF just fine without the Alabama Supreme Court

LA Times  

I never thought of myself as a mass killer, but the Alabama Supreme Court has a different idea. Last month, the court ruled frozen embryos are legally children, allowing several in-vitro fertilization patients to sue a fertility clinic for wrongful death over the inadvertent destruction of their refrigerated, um, kids. People undergoing in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, try to produce as …

Alabama lawmakers advance plan to protect IVF clinics
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Alabama lawmakers advance plan to protect IVF clinics

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Facing public pressure to get in vitro fertilization services restarted, Alabama lawmakers moved closer to approving protections for fertility clinics that shut down after a state court ruled that frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of children. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled in mid-February that three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a …

Alabama lawmakers rush to get IVF services restarted
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Alabama lawmakers rush to get IVF services restarted

The Independent  

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Patients urge Alabama lawmakers to restore IVF services in the state
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Patients urge Alabama lawmakers to restore IVF services in the state

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Carrying babies created through IVF …

Patients urge Alabama lawmakers to restore IVF services in the state
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Patients urge Alabama lawmakers to restore IVF services in the state

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — LeeLee Ray went through eight miscarriages, one ectopic pregnancy and multiple surgeries before turning to surrogacy in her hopes of having a child. But now that plan is in doubt as Alabama fertility clinics paused IVF services in the wake of a state court ruling that embryos are considered children under the state’s wrongful death law. Alabama …

The IVF Ruling Is About Who Gets to Raise Your Children
9 months, 3 weeks ago

The IVF Ruling Is About Who Gets to Raise Your Children

Slate  

In its decision earlier this month interpreting Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act as conferring personhood upon embryos, that state’s high court realized part of the dream of Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. * What Alito had called “unborn human beings” would inevitably be swept into Alabama’s protections for “extrauterine children.” That should surprise none of …

‘I’m living proof of why IVF is so necessary.’ Bills aiming to protect IVF treatment move forward in Alabama legislature
9 months, 3 weeks ago

‘I’m living proof of why IVF is so necessary.’ Bills aiming to protect IVF treatment move forward in Alabama legislature

CNN  

Montgomery, Alabama CNN — A group of bills aimed at protecting in vitro fertilization treatments in Alabama advanced out of Senate and House committees Wednesday – just a day after they were introduced – as state lawmakers race to respond to the state Supreme Court ruling that prompted clinics to pause parts of treatments and left many families in limbo. …

Alabama IVF patients describe heartbreak, anger after ruling
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Alabama IVF patients describe heartbreak, anger after ruling

Associated Press  

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Tory Beasley had dreamed of having three kids, and she and her husband turned to IVF after struggling with infertility. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra visited Alabama to lead a roundtable discussion with a group of IVF patients on Tuesday in Birmingham. Secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra hosts a panel discussion …

Alabama Senate bills propose legal immunity for IVF providers
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Alabama Senate bills propose legal immunity for IVF providers

NPR  

Alabama Senate bills propose legal immunity for IVF providers Enlarge this image toggle caption ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images The Alabama State Senate took first steps towards protecting in vitro fertilization treatments in the state with the introduction of two pieces of legislation Tuesday, which both seek immunity from civil and criminal liability for providers …

Nation’s top health official to visit Alabama in wake of IVF ruling
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Nation’s top health official to visit Alabama in wake of IVF ruling

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is sending the nation’s top health official to Alabama on Tuesday for discussions with patients and doctors about the controversial court ruling that upended in vitro fertilization treatment in the state. President Joe Biden and his allies have been quick to seize on last week’s ruling — which says that frozen embryos can be considered …

Trump demands ‘immediate solution’ to protect IVF in Alabama
10 months ago

Trump demands ‘immediate solution’ to protect IVF in Alabama

The Independent  

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"Devastasting": Ripple effects being felt as Alabama halts in vitro fertilization
10 months ago

"Devastasting": Ripple effects being felt as Alabama halts in vitro fertilization

Salon  

When Brittany Stuart and her husband weren’t having success trying to conceive, they started to explore their options. Instead, she’s fraught with questions since the Alabama Supreme Court said that frozen embryos are “extrauterine children.” “Are they saying that I murdered a child?” Stuart in phone call with Salon, referring to how the second embryo transfer was unsuccessful. In an …

Facing backlash over IVF ruling, Alabama lawmakers look for a fix
10 months ago

Facing backlash over IVF ruling, Alabama lawmakers look for a fix

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Lawmakers began scrambling for ways to protect Alabama in vitro fertilization services after multiple providers paused treatment in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos could be considered children under a state law. Justices ruled last week that three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in a mishap at a storage facility could …

Trump says he supports IVF following Alabama embryo ruling
10 months ago

Trump says he supports IVF following Alabama embryo ruling

Associated Press  

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Former President Donald Trump said he would “strongly support the availability of IVF” and called on lawmakers in Alabama to preserve access to the treatment that has become a new flashpoint in the 2024 presidential election. AP AUDIO: Ahead of South Carolina primary, Trump says he strongly supports IVF after Alabama court ruling AP correspondent Ed …

Some Republicans are voicing doubt over Alabama IVF ruling. Democrats see an opportunity
10 months ago

Some Republicans are voicing doubt over Alabama IVF ruling. Democrats see an opportunity

Associated Press  

Some Republicans joined Democrats in expressing alarm over a ruling this week by the Alabama Supreme Court that jeopardized future access to in vitro fertilization, giving allies of President Joe Biden new fuel for their efforts to center abortion access in the presidential election. “We’ve got to talk about making sure we don’t take away women’s rights to IVF, women …

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey says she wants to protect IVF treatment after court ruling
10 months ago

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey says she wants to protect IVF treatment after court ruling

NPR  

Kay Ivey says she wants to protect IVF treatment after court ruling Enlarge this image toggle caption Richard Drew/AP Richard Drew/AP Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey came out Friday in support of planned legislation that would protect IVF statewide, following the State Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are "children" and in vitro fertilization treatments. "The recent Alabama Supreme Court decision …

Alabama hospital puts pause on IVF in wake of ruling saying frozen embryos are children
10 months ago

Alabama hospital puts pause on IVF in wake of ruling saying frozen embryos are children

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama’s largest hospital paused in vitro fertilization treatments Wednesday as providers and patients across the state scrambled to assess the impact of a court ruling that said frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of children. Justices — citing language in the Alabama Constitution that the state recognizes the “rights of the unborn child” — said three couples …

Alabama’s Assault on IVF Is Even Worse Than It Sounds
10 months ago

Alabama’s Assault on IVF Is Even Worse Than It Sounds

Slate  

The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade immediately diminished the quality of health care provided to pregnant patients in states that ban abortion. Friday’s shock decision from the Alabama Supreme Court declaring that embryos are legally “people” will have a similarly devastating impact on the standard of care afforded to women struggling with infertility. The plaintiffs claimed that …

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling may have wider implications for people seeking IVF
10 months ago

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling may have wider implications for people seeking IVF

NPR  

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling may have wider implications for people seeking IVF NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Mary Ziegler, UC Davis law professor, about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that says frozen embryos are people and individuals can be held liable for destroying them. They had a variety of theories in the suit, one of which was that the …

Texas high court allows law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors to take effect
1 year, 3 months ago

Texas high court allows law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors to take effect

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court allowed a new state law banning gender-affirming care for minors to take effect on Friday, setting up Texas to be the most populous state with such restrictions on transgender children. Last week, a state district judge ruled the pending law violated the rights of transgender children and their families to seek appropriate medical …

Texas sues health secretary over emergency abortion guidance
2 years, 5 months ago

Texas sues health secretary over emergency abortion guidance

Associated Press  

The state of Texas sued the federal government Thursday after the Biden administration said federal rules require hospitals to provide abortions if the procedure is necessary to save a mother’s life, even in cases where state law mostly bans the procedure. “The Biden Administration seeks to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic,” Texas Attorney …

Oklahoma’s abortion providers are ‘already living in a post-Roe world’
2 years, 7 months ago

Oklahoma’s abortion providers are ‘already living in a post-Roe world’

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But Oklahoma is a smaller state than Texas, and people are trying to stay …

Alabama Is The 4th State To File A Copycat Version Of Texas’ Extreme Abortion Ban
3 years ago

Alabama Is The 4th State To File A Copycat Version Of Texas’ Extreme Abortion Ban

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Pro-choice advocates warned a domino effect would happen in the wake of Texas’ extreme abortion restriction – and it’s officially underway. “And these lawmakers will stop at nothing to attack abortion from every angle imaginable.” Some believe that Kiel’s copycat bill and others like it in Arkansas, Florida and Ohio are nothing more than political grandstanding since …

Preview of ‘a post-Roe world’ in Texas over abortion access
3 years ago

Preview of ‘a post-Roe world’ in Texas over abortion access

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas offers a glimpse in real time of what would be a striking new national landscape if the Supreme Court drastically curtails abortion rights: GOP-led states allowing almost no access to abortion, and women traveling hundreds of miles to end their pregnancies. “What we’ve experienced the past three months in Texas is a preview of a post-Roe …

Preview of ‘a post-Roe world’ in Texas over abortion access
3 years ago

Preview of ‘a post-Roe world’ in Texas over abortion access

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas offers a glimpse in real time of what would be a striking new national landscape if the Supreme Court drastically curtails abortion rights: GOP-led states allowing almost no access to abortion, and women traveling hundreds of miles to end their pregnancies. “What we’ve experienced the past three months in Texas is a preview of a post-Roe …

Live updates: Texas’ abortion law heads to SCOTUS
3 years, 1 month ago

Live updates: Texas’ abortion law heads to SCOTUS

CNN  

The oral arguments on the Texas law that bars abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy have wrapped. What the justices said: Two key conservative justices seemed open to arguments from abortion providers that they should be able to challenge the ban in federal court, but in a separate challenge, brought by the Department of Justice, several conservative justices did …

EXPLAINER: The Texas abortion law’s swift impact, and future
3 years, 2 months ago

EXPLAINER: The Texas abortion law’s swift impact, and future

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Most abortions in Texas are banned again after clinics that had raced to provide them during a two-day legal reprieve canceled appointments Saturday following a whiplash appeals court ruling. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-page order Friday night, reinstating a Texas law that prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks …

EXPLAINER: The Texas abortion law’s swift impact, and future
3 years, 2 months ago

EXPLAINER: The Texas abortion law’s swift impact, and future

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend a new law banning most abortions, which had already put a strain on clinics and patients in the month since it took effect. Physicians and executives at Texas’ nearly two dozen abortion clinics described turning away hundreds of patients, and some who showed up for appointments could not …

Texas law limits medication abortions as near-ban remains
3 years, 3 months ago

Texas law limits medication abortions as near-ban remains

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday lauded another new abortion law that tightens limits on abortion-inducing medications, creating an additional layer of restrictions after a near-total ban on abortion in the state began this month. It comes as nearly all abortions are currently banned in Texas under another law, known as Senate Bill 8, which abortion providers …

Texas abortion providers ask Supreme Court to act fast
3 years, 3 months ago

Texas abortion providers ask Supreme Court to act fast

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas abortion providers again asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to take up a new state law that has banned most abortions since the beginning of September, when the deeply divided justices allowed it to take effect. This time abortion providers want the court — which allowed the law known as Senate Bill 8 to remain …

Texas governor defends abortion law with no rape exceptions
3 years, 3 months ago

Texas governor defends abortion law with no rape exceptions

Associated Press  

DALLAS — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday defended a new state law banning most abortions that also does not provide exceptions for cases of rape or incest, saying it does not force victims to give birth even though it prohibits abortions before some women know they’re pregnant. Abbott, a Republican, added that Texas would strive to “eliminate all rapists …

GOP-led states see Texas law as model to restrict abortions
3 years, 3 months ago

GOP-led states see Texas law as model to restrict abortions

Associated Press  

— Republican states that have passed increasingly tough abortion restrictions only to see them blocked by the federal courts have a new template in an unusually written Texas law that represents the most far-reaching curb on abortions in nearly half a century. In Mississippi, Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel said he would “absolutely” consider filing legislation to match the Texas …

What Texas' New Abortion Law Means For The People Who Seek And Provide Them
3 years, 3 months ago

What Texas' New Abortion Law Means For The People Who Seek And Provide Them

NPR  

What Texas' New Abortion Law Means For The People Who Seek And Provide Them Enlarge this image toggle caption LM Otero/AP LM Otero/AP Texas' new abortion law is one of the strictest in the country. It bans abortions after about six weeks, allows private citizens to sue anyone perceived to be helping patients obtain abortions and doesn't make exceptions for …

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